XCOM2 is one of the best game of it's kind, with it's cleaver AI, soldiers customization both visually and mechanically, logical and practical tactical approach to the challenges without turning them into fixed puzzles, and of course an interesting story concept that can keep the player interested and push him/her to achieve success with limited resource and personnel; A very well done simulation of "guerrilla warfare with aliens", with flying mobile base included, that despite some minor flaws is actually pretty fair and never boring. Unfortunately as of now 18/3/2020, is strongly recommended TO NOT BUY the game here on GOG, as it doesn't support mods nor the official SDK necessary to mod the game is available here. Mods being one of XCOM2 most important feature, an absolutely essential tool to dramatically improve and customize the game to the player choice by removing or altering any option to perfection, be it by challenge or simple items; the lack of this feature pretty much kill the game longevity and value, making the GOG variant plain out inferior to it's Steam competitor, worse there is no mention of it in the game main page, tricking the customer into believing this game feature complete while it's obviously not. Until this tremendous problem is fixed on GOG, it's impossible to give to give this game anything more then a 2 stars, despite the Steam version easily deserving a 5.
A pretty good game, despite lacking any real tactical approach to battle due to ship equipment limitations, as the base ship systems cannot be changed only enhanced, and a 3 dimensional space that unfortunately does not influence combat all, the decent ship variety and the special skills differentiation in three different classes, can give to any space battle fanatics more then a few hours of fun. Be warned however that the system requirement ARE WRONG, with anything less then 6GB of Ram this game WILL NOT work as intended and various problems will occur after 30 min or so of gameplay, so despite starting on a 32 bit system, DO NOT buy this game unless your computer run a 64 bit OS, you'll regret it. The game is also mod friendly with tools given from the dev in the game folder by default. In collusion Starpoint Gemini 2 is a significant improvement over the first game, but not enough to warrant a 5 star.
